BIOGRAPHY
Dr.-Ing. Ankush Kashiwar is a faculty member in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He graduated from VNIT, Nagpur, with a B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2012. He secured an All India Rank 4 in GATE 2012 and joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, to pursue a Master's in Materials Engineering. During his master’s research under supervision of Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, he focused on 3D microstructural characterization to investigate morphologies and complex arrangement of phases in some Ni and Ti-based alloys for aerospace applications. In 2015, he was offered a full-time doctoral scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to pursue a PhD under supervision of Prof. Christian Kübel and Prof. Horst Hahn at Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Laboratory at the Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He defended his PhD in 2022 and joined the Electron Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT) group at the University of Antwerp in association with UCLouvain for his postdoctoral research with a fellowship offered by the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-F.N.R.S). His research is mainly centered around experimental nanomechanics of nanostructured materials, including nanocrystalline metals, alloys, hybrid nanolaminates, and minerals, to investigate the deformation processes at nano/atomic scales using in situ or ex situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. His research also focuses on microstructural evolution in various alloys for structural and aerospace applications under thermomechanical processing to investigate precipitation, damage, and self-healing mechanisms. His expertise includes state-of-the-art in situ TEM nanomechanics with nano-DIC, precession electron diffraction-based automated crystal orientation mapping in TEM (ACOM-TEM), and aberration-corrected scanning TEM.
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Mechanical Metallurgy
Areas of Interest
- Hybrid nanolaminates for advanced mechanical and tribological properties
- Microstructural stability in nanocrystalline alloys
- Development of new self-healable aerospace alloys and composites
- In situ transmission electron microscopy
Ankush Kashiwar
अंकुश काशीवार ଅଙ୍କୁଷ କାଶିୱାର |
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
kashiwara@nitrkl.ac.in
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Ankush Kashiwar
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Room Number: MS-215
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
2022
Ph.D.
Materials and GeosciencesTechnical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2014
M.E
Materials EngineeringIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2012
B.Tech
Metallurgical & Materials EngineeringVisvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Teaching Experience
- MM2502 : History and Evolution of Materials {Theory}, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 02 Jan 2025 - present
- MM3203 : Manufacturing Processes {Theory}, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 02 Jan 2025 - present
Post Doctoral Research Experience
- In situ TEM studies of nanoscale plasticity, damage, and self-healing in Al alloys and hybrid nanolaminate systems, Catholic University of Louvain & University of Antwerp, Belgium, 01 Mar 2022 - 31 Oct 2024
Total Publications: 0
- MM2502 : History and Evolution of Materials {Theory}
- MM3203 : Manufacturing Processes {Theory}
Awards And Honours
- 26/04/2023 – 27/04/2023: Travel grant offered by European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) for attending MecaNano general meeting held in Madrid, Spain (Grant amount: 809.79 €), 2023
- 01/03/2022 – 31/10/2024: Full-time postdoctoral fellowship offered by the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (Total fellowship amount: 1,04,810.26 €), 2022
- 22/04/2019 – 26/04/2019: Travel grant offered by the German Society for Electron Microscopy (DGE) for attending MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit 2019 held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Grant amount: 1275 €), 2019
- 11/03/2018 – 15/03/2018: Travel grant offered by the German Society for Electron Microscopy (DGE) for attending TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2018 held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Grant amount: 2,006.69 €), 2018
- 19/03/2017 – 24/03/2017: Travel grant offered by Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation for attending DPG Spring Meeting 2017 held in Dresden, Germany (Grant amount: 291.36 €), 2017
- 01/08/2015 – 31/12/2019: Full-time doctoral scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the program ‘Research Grants: Doctoral Programmes in Germany 2015/16’ (Total scholarship amount: 66,121.84 €), 2015
- All India Rank 4 (Metallurgical Engineering) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012 conducted under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2012
- Institute medal for overall outstanding performance in B.Tech. Metallurgical & Materials Engineering awarded by Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India, 2012
- 01/08/2012 – 31/07/2014: Master's scholarship at Indian Institute of Science awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (Total scholarship amount: 1,84,000 ₹), 2012
- 01/05/2012 – 30/06/2012: Summer research fellowships offered under the German Research Foundation (DFG) project at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Total fellowship amount: 1,691.45 €), 2012
- 01/05/2011 – 31/07/2011: Summer research fellowships offered under the German Research Foundation (DFG) project at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Total fellowship amount: 2,183.31 €), 2011